Japan has agreed to provide the U.S. with information related to space debris under a deal aimed at bolstering security cooperation, according to sources familiar with the matter. The U.S. government has been providing space debris information to Japan since the two countries reached ...

The United States on Friday welcomed Japan’s new energy policy, which favors the use of nuclear power despite the three core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant that tainted much of the prefecture with radiation in 2011. In a joint statement released ...

For Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Thursday’s summit with U.S. President Barack Obama should have been a big moment to trumpet the strength of the Japan-U.S. alliance, which he claimed has greatly improved after relations soured under the Democratic Party of Japan-led administration that preceded ...

Japan, the United States and South Korea began a two-day meeting of senior defense officials in Washington on Thursday to discuss potential responses to North Korea, which has threatened to conduct a new form of nuclear test. The high-level meeting at the U.S. Department of Defense ...

Japanese and U.S. trade chiefs met Wednesday to discuss outstanding bilateral issues related to the ongoing Pacific trade talks — striving to break the stalemate in negotiations ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Tokyo in just two weeks. Akira Amari, Japan’s minister ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States has made efforts to ensure that North Korea’s nuclear threat does not motivate Japan and South Korea to arm themselves with atomic weapons. “We are working with Japan and (South Korea) in ...

The United States is seeking to enhance its naval presence in Japan — as well as its overall military presence in Southeast Asia — according to a report released by the Quadrennial Defense Review on Tuesday. The plan is part of a continued U.S. ...

Japan plans to return, at the request of Washington, plutonium provided by the United States for research purposes during the Cold War, government sources said Tuesday. The government wants to be seen contributing to nuclear nonproliferation, the sources said. The Obama administration asked for ...

The U.S. Energy Department has made available online a report about the medical effects of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to a Japanese scholar. Shigenobu Nagataki, an honorary professor at Nagasaki University, asked U.S. authorities last year to release ...

Sales of new cars and light trucks in the United States in the first six months of this year rose 7.7 percent from a year earlier to 7,829,141 units, the highest since the same period in 2007, before the global financial crisis, according to ...